PS3 will sell around 3million units in others alone in december 2008

[MikeB]

@ BengaBenga

Seriously, Sony doesn't have a clue what it's doing. At the very least GT5 and God of War 3 should have been ready for this holiday. They have some momentum going, but I think the weak holiday line-up will kill the momentum.

I can see a strategy.

The PS3 wasn't designed to do PS2 numbers right out of the gate, it was designed for a long term future (IMO this is obvious considering costly hardware specs).

IMO short term goals:

1) Push HD DVD out of the market. (accomplished)
2) Provide people a good reason for upgrading towards HDTV. The PS3 already had a very positive effect on the HDTV market according to market research. Sony expects to become market leader by 2011 in unit sales, they are already very close to the current market leader in terms of revenue.
3) Outsell the 360 to not allow Microsoft to take much advantage of cheaper pricing. (going well so far)
4) Keep the PS2 attractive and in mass production, penetrate economically less wealthy markets.
5) Get consoles online.

IMO long term goals:

1) Mature the PS3 software library and operating system. Reduce the PS3 costs and adapt the hardware to suit the mass market the upcoming years.
2) The PS3 will make the transition towards a PS4 more seamless, take Playstation Home with you to your next console, easier to implement backwards compatibility, game engine modernization making it also easier to get the most out of follow-up consoles.
3) Long lifecycle, eventually the most interesting multi-featured console on the market and of course to better PS2 sales when the time is right.

IMO most of this couldn't be achieved with a PS2.5.